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- “The Israeli government has a special duty to protect its citizens… the Israeli government also has a special duty to protect Palestinians” — Saba Bazargan-Forward (UCSD) explains why, and what it implies
- “Studying convoluted examples of conscious animals to understand consciousness is like reverse-engineering the electric calculator to understand how machines perform addition, rather than starting with the abacus” — Kristin Andrews (York) on how anthropocentrism hampers the study of consciousness
- “Though the number of papers… in this area is low… the breadth of topics that have already been covered is staggering” — Florian Cova (Geneva) surveys experimental philosophy of aesthetics
- “Your goal may have been to win a military campaign and to do it as ruthlessly and quickly as possible knowing that your political clock is running out, but the result begins to look more and more like genocide” — Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov (Brown) is interviewed on whether what is happening in Gaza is genocide
- “What I should look to philosophy to do is to encourage people to act with vigor without complete certainty” — a 1960 interview with Bertrand Russell (video)
- “Most of the audience of ‘Jaws’ would say that [its] representation of sharks is fictional. In spite of that, the representation had, for many, an impact on their daily life, as it shaped the way in which they perceived real sharks and saw certain actions as justified” — Anaïs Giannuzzo (Geneva) on fiction, feelings, representations, and rationality
- Two official Guinness World Records for a rock-climbing philosophy professor — ““It’s like puzzle-solving. It’s like this puzzle that involves your body,” say Alex Pruss (Baylor)
Unclassified Documents Contain Troubling Information About Dragnet Phone Surveillance Program
“Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called on Attorney General Merrick Garland [Read the full letter to Attorney General Garland here]to make public documents related to the Hemisphere phone surveillance program, which allows federal, state, local and Tribal law enforcement agencies to request searches of trillions of U.S. phone records, usually without warrants. Although the documents are not classified, the Justice Department has marked them as “Law Enforcement Sensitive,” which is meant to prevent them from being publicly released. In a letter to Garland sent today, Wyden urged the department to remove those restrictions.
I have serious concerns about the legality of this surveillance program, and the materials provided by the DOJ contain troubling information that would justifiably outrage many Americans and other members of Congress,” Wyden wrote. “While I have long defended the government’s need to protect classified sources and methods, this surveillance program is not classified and its existence has already been acknowledged by the DOJ in federal court. The public interest in an informed debate about government surveillance far outweighs the need to keep this information secret.” Under the Hemisphere program, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) indirectly pays AT&T to allow any federal, state, local or Tribal law enforcement agency to search AT&T customers’ phone records as far back as 1987, according to public records about the program…”